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“What Mormon missionaries taught me about faith”

    Accosted by sister missionaries at Temple Square, he was inclined at first to be irritated by the interruption.  But his irritation passed quickly:   http://www.realclearreligion.org/arti...   Posted from Marbella, Spain    

“Hearken to the truth, and give heed unto it”

    Cassandra Hedelius, Jeffrey Mark Bradshaw, Daniel Peterson, and Stephen Smoot discuss 1 Nephi 16-18 (2016 Gospel Doctrine lesson 5) in this, the 149th scripture roundtable published by the Interpreter Foundation:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   Posted from Marbella, Spain    

Hemingway’s love letter to Paris

    Ernest Hemingway loved Spain.   But he had many loves, both human and urban.   Apparently, more than a few people leaving flowers at the memorials in Paris have also left copies of his posthumously-published memoir of life there in the 1920s, A Moveable Feast, which is something of a love letter to the city. [Read More...]

“Providing for the Refugees in Lebanon”

    Christmas is drawing near.  We give gifts at Christmas.  So is Thanksgiving, when we reflect on the many things we’ve been given.  So is the end of the year, leading up to which many of us (in the United States, at least) think of making tax-exempt donations.   Here’s a touching video, relevant to [Read More...]

Trump’s spokeswoman, on monitoring and shutting down mosques and Mormon churches

    Are the Trump folks ready for prime time?  Have they ever heard of the Constitution?  Do they know anything about history?   http://www.sltrib.com/home/3201632-15...   I report.  You decide.   (Actually, I’ve decided already.  But I’ll let you do it for yourself.)   Posted from Marbella, Spain    

“The Illusion of Respectability”

    There has been a lot of talk, lately, about how being tainted by any association with the Interpreter Foundation, or with Mormon apologetics, or with BYU Religious Education, or with overtly expressed Latter-day Saint belief, might destroy one’s chances of attending graduate school or ever getting a decent job in academia.  Young scholars [Read More...]

“Nephi’s Good Inclusio”

    Is it Friday?   It is.   So here’s a hint:   There’s a new article today in Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/neph...   Posted from Marbella, Spain  

The ancient mountain town of Ronda

    It was fun yesterday, traveling from Istanbul to Málaga, to fly over Tunisia and Algeria — two countries where I’ve never yet set foot.   My wife and I met two of our neighbors there and, after settling in at the place where we’re staying, had an excellent meal of sea bass with [Read More...]

How to learn to trust

    The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.  (Ernest Hemingway)   Ernest Hemingway, who spent a great deal of time at the bullfighting ring in Ronda that we visited a couple of hours ago, was anything but a theologian.  Still, his comment above seems to me [Read More...]

“The Things Which I Saw While I Was Carried Away in the Spirit”

    For the 148th scripture roundtable posted by the Interpreter Foundation, Bruce Webster, Martin Tanner, and Shon Hopkin discuss the scriptural passages covered in 2016 Gospel Doctrine lesson 4, which are 1 Nephi 12-14:   http://www.mormoninterpreter.com/scri...   Posted from Marbella, Spain